What a hospital actually charges
Cash prices, gross charges and insurer-negotiated rates for 1070 hospitals — straight from the machine-readable files US hospitals are federally required to publish. No estimates, no guesswork, provenance on every number.
7660754 hospital×procedure prices · 12427 procedures · updated from each hospital's own file
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Most widely published procedures
Ranked by how many hospitals publish a cash price for them — the codes with the most to compare.
| Procedure | Code | Hospitals | Lowest cash | National median | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prealbumin | CPT 84134 | 946 | $5.63 | $94.00 | $956.78 |
| Carcinoembryonic ag (cea) | CPT 82378 | 945 | $7.78 | $145.20 | $1,421.31 |
| Diabetes (HbA1c) Test | CPT 83036 | 941 | $6.81 | $79.30 | $783.00 |
| Acute hepatitis panel | CPT 80074 | 940 | $16.74 | $284.95 | $2,890.00 |
| Digoxin total therapeutic drug level | CPT 80162 | 940 | $5.99 | $102.07 | $1,053.11 |
| Ferritin | CPT 82728 | 939 | $11.55 | $102.48 | $1,013.86 |
| Transferrin | CPT 84466 | 939 | $6.16 | $82.00 | $827.53 |
| Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe chlamydia trachomatis | CPT 87491 | 939 | $16.67 | $141.95 | $1,407.14 |
| Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe neisseria gonorrhoeae | CPT 87591 | 939 | $10.60 | $137.67 | $1,206.77 |
| Vitamin b-12 | CPT 82607 | 938 | $6.05 | $100.28 | $1,013.86 |
| Procalcitonin | CPT 84145 | 938 | $13.44 | $161.11 | $1,579.77 |
| Hepatitis b core antibody igm | CPT 86705 | 938 | $4.91 | $89.60 | $909.86 |
| Folic acid | CPT 82746 | 937 | $5.72 | $101.50 | $1,026.87 |
| Valproic acid total therapeutic drug level | CPT 80164 | 936 | $6.60 | $115.00 | $1,196.57 |
| Hepatitis a antibody igm | CPT 86709 | 936 | $4.68 | $89.44 | $880.61 |
| Neck (Cervical Spine) MRI (without contrast) | CPT 72141 | 935 | $247.20 | $2,042.95 | $19,842.82 |
| Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (without contrast) | CPT 72148 | 935 | $233.59 | $2,080.00 | $19,472.20 |
| Progesterone | CPT 84144 | 935 | $7.12 | $116.00 | $1,166.70 |
| Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (with and without contrast) | CPT 72158 | 934 | $257.25 | $3,097.92 | $29,180.61 |
| Calcium ionized | CPT 82330 | 934 | $6.00 | $90.00 | $860.44 |
Rarest procedures
The other end of the tail: codes only a handful of hospitals in the country publish a cash price for. With one hospital there is nothing to compare against — that is the point.
| Procedure | Hospitals | Cash price |
|---|---|---|
| Shorten/lengthen thighs | 1 | $9,861.60 |
| Prepare donor lung single | 1 | $3,986.45 |
| Prepare donor lung double | 1 | $5,915.65 |
| Repair septal defect | 1 | $5,089.50 |
| Prepare donor heart/lung | 1 | $4,819.75 |
| Impl/rplcmt gstr nstim eltrd | 1 | $3,471.00 |
| Intestine transplnt cadaver | 1 | $22,922.90 |
| Remove intestinal allograft | 1 | $9,120.80 |
| Prepare donor intestine | 1 | $1,737.45 |
| Prep donor liver 3-segment | 1 | $1,868.75 |